Here is a complete set of the nine panels on Blythe Street, five from the Charter Youth Club, four from the Sandy Row Womans Group. The Womans Group/Women’s Group panels were featured in more detail in Mr Saturday Night and Those Days Are Gone.
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The sporting heroes range from boxers in the Sandy Row Boxing Club to Linfield and Northern Ireland football players.
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The schools of Sandy Row (in the third image) are Blythefield Primary (featured in the other images), Mabel Street School, National School, Linfield Junior Public Elementary School, and Workman’s School.
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This is an in-progress set of images of the original “Wheatfield Project” panels on the Ballysillan Road, depicting the 20th century in loyalism. The crown on the YCV symbol and the tombstones and Ulster tower have not been finished and Carson’s statue will be added to the foreground of Stormont.
Later on, an info board would replace the first two panels, and the order after it would be Ulster Day, then Carson signing the covenant, then a new double-sized panel of Fernhill House, and then the rest as above, but with the order of the Sunningdale and UWC strike panels reversed.
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This is the scene in Ardoyne Avenue, looking west towards Berwick Avenue (with the Birth Of The Irish Republic mural PMC | Extramural) and Divis mountain. In the middle ground, Sınn Féın urge people to get on the electoral rolls: “British government guilty of electoral fraud. 211,000 denied their vote [see also in Linden St]. Are you one of them? An bhfuıl tusa ına measc? Register now. Cláraıgh anoıs. Sınn Féın.”
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The large board on the left commemorates the 10 dead hunger strikers (WP) and two blanketmen. “No greater love” echoes John 15:13.
There are also two smaller boards on the right: first, “Same old mural, same old force” with the three-in-one figure of RUC, Orange Order, and loyalist paramilitary under a traffic “No” symbol; second, an interesting board alleging collusion between the RUC and the UDA and UVF in north and east Belfast.
Oldpark Road, north Belfast.
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“Let no man write my epitaph until my country takes her place among the nations of the world.” These images are from the launch of a board to Robert Emmet, a Protestant and republican (WP) on Havana Way, Ard Eoın/Ardoyne.
Emmet to hang! The launch included a re-enactment of Emmet’s execution on 20th September 1803.
A mural to Emmet was one of the very few CNR mural painted before the Troubles, in 1953 for the sesquicentennial – see Visual History 02.
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